CVE-2015-3310

ppp: buffer overflow in radius plug-in's rc_mksid()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 13, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in the rc_mksid function in plugins/radius/util.c in Paul's PPP Package (ppp) 2.4.6 and earlier, when the PID for pppd is greater than 65535, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a start accounting message to the RADIUS server.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')